ABC iview – quick links
ABC iview: new this week
Leonard & Hungry Paul Season 1 – 12 May
Series. Leonard & Hungry Paul follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties and the expansion of their universe.
Leonard, a ghost writer of children’s encyclopaedias, and Hungry Paul, a part-time postal worker who still lives at home, meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines.
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Operation Ouch Season 14 – 4 May
Series. From biceps and burps to pins and needles and puke, nothing escapes the doctors’ crazy tasks and experiments as they explore the weirdness and wonders of the human body.
Silent Witness Season 28 – 2 May
Series. A new season of crimes for the forensic team to solve and Jack is apprehensive about the arrival of new boss Professor Harriet Maven. He has heard she is difficult and, on arrival, she quickly rubs Jack up the wrong way.
eath in Paradise Season 14 – 2 May
Series. A brand new DI lands on Saint Marie with more confounding murders to solve. But Londoner Mervin Wilson ruffles some feathers as he clashes with the island’s way of life.
Lewis Season 1 – 1 May
Series. A spin-off from Inspector Morse, Lewis centres on Detectives Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway as they investigate grisly murders against the backdrop of the beautiful university spires of Oxford.
Gruen Season 18 – 29 April
Australia’s favourite multi-award winning, multi-award losing, longest running (probably now that Neighbours has bitten the dust again), and most importantly, the only show about advertising is coming back for an 18th season.
But wait, there’s more. The show is new and improved. Zero calories. Full of protein. Contains collagen. Active ingredients. No artificial colours, flavour, or intelligence. And is guaranteed to be on free-to-air or your money back.
Host Wil Anderson says: ‘We were really hoping that the end of the world would stop advertisers, but it turns out that we live in hell, and they’re selling us snowballs.’
Urzila – 29 April
Series. Get ready to dive headfirst into the brilliantly chaotic mind of comedy powerhouse Urzila Carlson with her new sketch comedy series.
Urzila is gleefully outrageous, capturing Carlson’s fearless, no-filter approach to comedy in full flight. Each episode mashes up razor‑sharp stand‑up with cheeky, fast‑firing sketches, many of them plucked straight from the wildly funny stories she riffs on during her live shows.
It’s a TV series powered by two decades of stand-up comedy chaos: bold, boisterous, and unmistakably Urzila.
Joining her on this energetic ride is her handpicked ensemble of rising comedy talent: Bron Lewis, Carlo Ritchie, Andy Saunders and Anisa Nandaula.
The Assembly Season 3 – 26 April
Series. In its third season, The Assembly delves into deeper, more ambitious territory, with Autistic journalism students from previous seasons returning to question some of Australia’s most recognisable personalities for revealing, in-depth interviews that go beyond their public image.
Taking the next step in their media training under the continued mentorship of award-winning journalist Leigh Sales, the graduate students share their personal success stories from their first foray into the media.
For the first time, Sales takes the students on field trips, to sharpen their research and interviewing skills while uncovering the real stories behind the featured guests.
Bad Company – 26 April
Series. This brand-new six-part comedy series is a riotous clash of egos, ambition and backstage drama . Starring two of Australia’s powerhouse comedians, Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan, and created and written by Edmonds, Bad Company brings together a dream comedy pairing in a story about two fierce rivals who test each other to the limits.
At the centre of the chaos is Margie Argyle (Anne Edmonds), the Argyle Theatre’s wildly confident artistic director who is determined to stage her most experimental, critic-wowing masterpiece yet.
There’s just one small problem: Margie’s bold creative vision might also send the already fragile theatre hurtling towards financial ruin.
Standing between Margie and catastrophe is Julia McNamara (Kitty Flanagan), a corporate high-flyer with a flawless track record and the steely resolve to match.
